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Thinning out these jalapeño and okra plant?
Okay this is the first time I've tried to grow vegetables since I was a child. I'm growing them in 5 gallon buckets with good potting mix and plenty of organic matter, and after two weeks after planting I noticed something earlier. It seems that my okra and jalapeño peppers have multiple seedlings bunched together. Especially the okra plant that has one large seedling and two separate stalks that barely see the sun because of the big stalk. It came in the single biodegradable bonnie pot. I am just confused as to whether it is normal for the seedlings to be so close, whether they are the same plant, or what? It said to tear the pot off and plant it but something doesn't seem right. Should I cut the other two that seem to be extra???
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I grow Jalapenos and other pepper seeds in community pots and transplant them out when they have true leaves about 2-3 inches tall. if you remove them small and carefully, you can tease apart the roots and replant them. I would only leave one pepper per pot , but I keep my short lived and young peppers like the jalapeno in one or two gallon pots and the longer lived tabasco in 20 inch pots. While you could probably accommodate two peppers in a pot, the canopies will mash together and won't be able to spread out. I have problems with fungal disease so I need to be able to separate the pots as the plants get bigger so the peppers will have enough air circulation.
I grow okra every spring/summer and have never had 2 stalks come up from 1 seed. If you plan on growing the okra in a 5 gallon pot, that likely won't be big enough. My okra plants routinely get close to 8 ft. tall by summers end and the stalks are almost all 2-3 inches in diameter. When I pull them in September, the root system goes down into the ground at least 18 inches for the main root with tons of side roots growing in all directions.
Jalapenos will do fine in a 5 gallon bucket from my experience and I live in New Orleans. Now, some peppers, like habanero's and Ghost's have huge plants and they would likely be stressed in that size pot. My last habs and ghost pepper plants were at least 4 ft. tall and just as wide. Jalapeno's generally stay a good bit smaller.
Jalapenos will do fine in a 5 gallon bucket from my experience and I live in New Orleans. Now, some peppers, like habanero's and Ghost's have huge plants and they would likely be stressed in that size pot. My last habs and ghost pepper plants were at least 4 ft. tall and just as wide. Jalapeno's generally stay a good bit smaller.